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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Synopsis:
Bracken is a typical teenage boy, more interested in the angles of the girl’s exposed back teasing him from the seat ahead of him than in anything the geometry teacher could present. His life is filled with school, video games, and thoughts of girls, not necessarily in that order. Life just flows along uneventfully and unacknowledged, like the electricity that courses through the power lines — until PF (Power Failure) Day. On PF Day, the sun strikes Bracken’s world with an unseen surge of electromagnetic fury, which cripples power stations and burns transformers to crispy nuggets of regret.

No one in Bracken’s world had ever thought about how much they depended on electrical power, but now, without it, they are plunged into survival mode. Bracken soon realizes how lucky he is to live on a farm in the Midwest. What seemed like a dull and backwards life before is now the greatest chance for survival in what seems like a powerless world. Food, water, and heat are readily available, although hard work is required to make use of them. Bracken and his family must learn to survive like their ancestors, who settled their land.

Julie L. Casey lives in a rural area near St.
Joseph, Missouri, with her husband, Jonn Casey, a science teacher,
and their three youngest sons. After teaching preschool for fifteen years,
she has been homeschooling her four sons for ten years. Julie has bachelor of
science degrees in education and computer programming and has written five
books, including How I Became a Teenage Survivalist, Time Lost: Teenage
Survivalist II, Stop Beating the Dead Horse, In Daddy’s Hands, and Guardians of
Holt. She is currently working on the third book in the Teenage Survivalist series, titled Ice Queen: Teenage Survivalist III. She enjoys historical reenacting, wildlife
rehabilitation, teaching her children, and writing books that capture the
imaginations of young people.

Book Snippet

I am the second of three brothers. Mom thought it would be cool to name us in alphabetical order, so my older brother is Alexander, I’m Bracken, and my little brother is Calvin. Mom always jokes that if she’d had another kid, she would have named it Done.

I was fifteen when the first solar superstorm wreaked havoc on our lives. It was November 1st and I was at school, trying to concentrate on what the geometry teacher was trying to teach us. I couldn’t quite make my brain behave – it kept wandering away on its own adventure about the girl in the desk in front of me, Silky Henderson. Man, was she hot!

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Good friends have
your back, but some go behind it.

Before I share anything with you about this book, here's a bit about the author.

Author bio: Krysten Lindsay Hager is the author of the
Landry’s True Colors Series, a clean reads young adult series.
Krysten writes about friendship, self-esteem, fitting in, middle
school and high school, frenemies, modeling, crushes, values, and
self-image in both True Colors and Best Friends…Forever?

Krysten is an Amazon
international bestselling author and book addict who has never met a
bookstore she didn’t like. She’s worked as a journalist and
writes middle grade, YA, humor essays, and adult fiction. She is
originally from Michigan and has lived in Portugal, South Dakota, and
currently resides in Southern Ohio where you can find her reading and
writing when she’s not catching up on her favorite shows. She
received her master’s degree from the University of Michigan-Flint.

And now, here is the cover and blurb.

Landry Albright hopes the new year will start off in an amazing way—instead she has to deal with more frenemy issues, boy drama, and having most of her best friends make the cheerleading squad without her. Suddenly, it seems like all anyone can talk about is starting high school next year—something she finds terrifying.

Landry gets her first boyfriend, but then gets dumped just as things come to a head with her friends. She feels lost and left out, but finds good advice about dealing with frenemies from what she considers an unlikely source. Landry faces having to speak up for what’s right, tell the truth (even when it hurts), and how to get past the fear of failure as she gets another shot at competing in the American Ingénue modeling competition.

Sounds interesting, yes? Here is what readers are saying about the first book in the series.

From Teenage Book
Recommendations in the UK:

"This is a fantastically
relatable and real book which I feel captures all of the insecurities
and troubles which haunt the modern teenage girl. It is about a young
model who has to go through tough times when she is torn between a
life as a model and managing her friendships. You learn which friends
she can most trust and which will create the drama typical of teenage
life. Follow the life of Landry and try to see if you can find out
which are her true friends before their true colours are revealed.
This book is all about relationships, hopes and truth. I loved this
book!"

From Books &
Authors Spot:

“This book is such an inspiration for those who
just care about their looks and are tensed about them. This thing is
looks aren't everything. This book is related to every teen's
problem. Hager has written a very inspiring novel.”

Monday, March 23, 2015

We had so much fun last month doing the Cover Reveal for this book and can't wait to give you a deeper look into the book!

Melynda Price is the author of several contemporary and
paranormal romance titles, including Until Darkness Comes, Shades of
Darkness, Courting Darkness, and Braving the Darkness, all in
the Redemption Series. Price writes for ardent readers who want to fall in love
over and over again. Her goal is to make the unbelievable believable while
taking her characters to the limit with stories full of passion, heart, and
unexpected twists. Salting stories with undertones of history whenever
possible, Price adds immeasurable depth to her well-crafted books. Win by
Submission is the first book of her upcoming mixed martial arts–themed
Against the Cage series. She lives with her husband and two children in
Northern Minnesota, where there are plenty of snow-filled days to curl up in
front of the fireplace with a hot cup of coffee and write.

After an illegal kick during a CFA title fight fractures
Cole Easton’s spine, doctors say there’s nothing more they can do for the
bitter Vegas fighter. They say it’s a miracle he can walk, if that’s what you
call his crutch-dragging limp. Unwilling to give up on him, Cole’s manager
sends the injured fighter to the best physical therapist he knows: his niece,
Katie Miller. When Cole arrives in the small town of Somerset, Wisconsin, he
quickly discovers his sly manager may have had reasons other than rehab for
sending him to this frozen tundra.

After a year of running from an abusive ex-boyfriend, Katie
has returned to her hometown to care for her father, who’s recovering from a
stroke. When Uncle Marcus calls in a favor, she reluctantly finds herself taking
on a rancorous MMA fighter, broken at the height of his career. He’s insanely
sex-on-a-stick hot—and everything she loathes in a man.

If Cole thinks his fighting days are over, he’s dead wrong.
To save Katie from her past and to win her heart, he’ll be in for the fight of
his life.

Book Snippet

Right now, tied to the bed and at
Katie’s mercy, Cole was rapidly rethinking the wisdom of his less
than well thought-out strategy. He’d told her no sex, determined to
hold on to at least some semblance of control. Perhaps she would be
more confident if she didn’t have the added pressure of worrying he
might have expectations about where this was going to lead. But now,
Cole was starting to wonder if she wasn’t going to use his clause
against him.

His arms were stretched above his head,
his wrists fastened together by the length of his belt and secured to
one of the thick rungs on the headboard. It was by sheer will he
remained at her mercy. Though she’d bound him tightly, he was
plenty strong enough to break free if he’d had a mind to escape,
but in doing so, he’d also be breaking Katie’s trust and
forfeiting any chance of being with her.

About Me

Hi! I'm a preschool teacher who also manages and owns a small production company for voice acting and our various productions, called The Manga Project. I am also an avid reader, and a writer of fiction, fan fiction, fantasy, some sci-fi, poetry, and general non-sense.
I like to cook and bake a lot, though I usually don't have a lot of time, between producing/directing, teaching, and writing.
I just put out my first publication, The Unknown Elf, and am crossing fingers that it does well.